OVI POETRY
Ovi is a syllabic/metre poetry form. In this case, Ovi is from India, originating in the Marathi language. The Ovi has been in use in written form since the 13th Century, but the women’s ovee/ovi predates the literary form by at least the 12th Century.
The Ovi are in general, lyrical folk songs expressing love, social irony, and heroic events. They are written in the following scheme.
4 line stanzas, as few as one stanza and up to as many as you like.
8 syllables or less per line
Rhyming is AAAb. The second stanza would be CCCd. The third, EEEf. And so on. Meaning nothing in one stanza must rhyme with anything in the previous stanza. The fourth line does not rhyme.
Example:
Roly Poly by Judi Van Gorder
The big toothed tot with golden hair
picked up a bug on Sister’s dare,
it rolled into a ball right there
and won her springtime heart.
Notice the rhyming pattern is AAAb or
A
A
A
b
My Attempt
Blue flowers continue to grow,
with the shadow’s making them glow,
giving life to darkness and woe,
dying each year to yet return.
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[…] Let’s comfort those who are fearly.Pause to embrace life more clearly.Enlighten hearts- warm them dearly.But don’t be a fool.Love can’t balance on a fence.Reveal evil; it’s not past tense.Celebration’s a no-good defense.Best be a lion.https://ronovanwrites.com/2023/12/13/ovi-poetry-challenge-26-celebration-is-your-inspiration/ […]
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Revelry and Deviltry
We, each of us, have brief moments
of pleasure, of joy so intense
that therein the world attains sense,
and we celebrate till the dawn.
But celebrations have limits,
hurdles of wars, storms, legal writs,
upheavals and violent snits
of power abused, rights denied.
The whole earth calendar is graced
with darkness, death, migrants displaced,
missing at sea, chastised, debased,
each soul seeking a trace of home.
Still, I seek times to celebrate,
wins, and even losses of late,
for in loss, one perceives one’s fate,
and is humbled by fickle time.
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